Bishop, Peter & Michael Darton (editors). The Encyclopedia of World Faiths: An Illustrated Survey of the World's Living Faiths. New York: Facts on File Publications (1987); pg. 114.

"[Lutheran] present-day distribution by continents is: 60,400,000 in Europe; 8,900,000 in North America; 2,300,000 in Asia; 1,900,000 in South America; 1,900,000 in Africa; and 500,000 in Australasia. "

*LINK* Evangelical Church in Finland official web site; web page: "Churches and religions in Finland "; (viewed 5 July 1999).

Table: "Churches and religions in Finland "

Lutheran

Finland

4,400,000

86.00%

-

-

1999

*LINK* Evangelical Church in Finland official web site; web page: "Churches and religions in Finland "; (viewed 5 July 1999).

"The Lutheran Church is the church of the majority of Finns. A total of 4.4 million persons belong to Evangelical-Lutheran congregations in Finland. The Church is part of the Finnish way of life. Around 86% of the population are members of the Lutheran Church. "

Lutheran

Florida

167,734

1.30%

415units

-

1990

Glenmary Research Center. Churches & Church Membership in U.S., 1990.

By-county org. reports, figures from 'Churches' & inclusive 'Adherents' columns. This "Lutheran " figure is an aggregate from organizational adherent statistics from the 12 major American Lutheran religious bodies.

Table 3-6: "Religious Profiles of Selected Metropolitan Areas ". Based on self-identification, phone interviews, conducted by Graduate School of the City University of New York, 1990. Total area pop: 3.2 million.

"Lutherans. As a Catholic monk in sixteenth-century Germany, Martin Luther... Though Luther only meant to reform the Catholic church, his actions launched the Protestant Reformation and divided Christians into many different groups... "

List of "Major World Religions ": "About 80 million persons are Lutherans today. Lutheranism is the religion of half the people of Germany. In Iceland, Findlan, Norway and Sweden it is the established Church and receives support from the state. "

"Germany, where the Lutheran tradition has its origin, had the largest number of Lutherans in any one country, its Lutheran churches having a combined membership of 14.3 million, ahead of the United States with 8.3 million. "

Lutheran

Germany

14,000,000

-

-

-

1997

"Lutherans by the numbers " in Christian Century (March 4, 1998); pg. 228.

"The largest number of Lutherans in any one country can be found in Germany, the birthplace of the faith. German Lutherans number just over 14 million, followed by U.S. Lutherans, who number nearly 8.3 million in several Lutheran denominations. "

"Location: Germany; Population: Over 81 million "; "About 29.5% of Germans belong to the official [Lutheran] Protestant church and an estimted 28% are Catholics. The Protestants live mainly in the north of the country and the Catholics in the south. "

The Lutheran Church, the state church in Greenland, claims 80% of Greenlanders -- including those of Danish extraction -- as adherents. Yet, Martens says the number of evangelical believers among the Inuit may be as low as one hundred people.

"Location: Iceland; Population: 262,000 " [1994 pop. est.]; Pg. 191: "Over 90% of Icelanders belong to the official state church, the Evangelical Lutheran Church... Under 4% of the population belong to other Lutheran denominations... "

Lutheran

Idaho

26,372

2.62%

86units

-

1990

Glenmary Research Center. Churches & Church Membership in U.S., 1990.

By-county org. reports, figures from 'Churches' & inclusive 'Adherents' columns. This "Lutheran " figure is an aggregate from organizational adherent statistics from the 12 major American Lutheran religious bodies.

Table 3-5: "Religious Profiles of Selected Cities by Percentage ". Based on self-identification, phone interviews, conducted by Graduate School of the City University of New York, 1990. Total Chicago pop: 2.8 million.

"Last month India's biggest Lutheran church, the 800,000-member Andhra Evangelical Lutheran Church (AELC), ordained its first women. Eighteen women were ordained as pastors in the service at St. Matthew's Church in the city of Guntur in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. The AELC is the fourth of India's Lutheran churches to ordain women The first were ordained in 1991. "

Lutheran

Indiana

191,350

3.45%

442units

-

1990

Glenmary Research Center. Churches & Church Membership in U.S., 1990.

By-county org. reports, figures from 'Churches' & inclusive 'Adherents' columns. This "Lutheran " figure is an aggregate from organizational adherent statistics from the 12 major American Lutheran religious bodies.

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